There's no kit of this Star Wars ship, so I did it myself

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  @planetfall5056 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRVAtvA5PE0&amp;t=48">0:48</a> Well, no they&apos;ve actually been in every movie in the original trilogy, it&apos;s just that they never dropped their cloaking fields :P

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  @Quick-Silver206 · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s so nice to find another builder who prefers the sturdiness of plastic over using foam and cardboard.

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• EL

  @elmorientez3787 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Thank Gundam for giving Bandai like 40 years of experience in perfecting moulding technology. If you&apos;ve never looked at a modern Master Grade Gundam kit you should, it&apos;ll blow your mind

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• MR

  @MrShogunfish · 1 year ago

  Now that you&apos;ve used parts from both kits you&apos;re cursed with a bunch of ultra-recognizable tie fighter bits to try to fit into other projects.

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• GO

  @gopniksaurolophus6354 · 1 year ago

  Literally ILM in 1977:

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• XX

  @xXVintersorgXx · 1 year ago

  &quot;I&apos;m not a patent person&quot; <b>proceeded to tediously masks off a 1 mm section of the canopy for paint</b>

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  @SpiritOfBagheera · 1 year ago

  “No ship that small has a cloaking device!”

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  @thehappyvulcan · 1 year ago

  According to Adam Savage, all TIEs are painted the same gray.<br>However, what makes them look bluer in EP V to VI is due to the lighting.<br><br>I think you did everything well. The build and the color.

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• DA

  @dahSweep · 10 months ago

  The Phantom was also sold in miniature form for the X-Wing tabletop game! I had one for my Empire force, before I sold my collection. Very neat fighter.

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  @ReituagZbrah · 1 year ago

  &quot;I am very impatient&quot; <b>manages to put tens of hours, if not hundreds, in selecting and placing tiny bits all over the ship</b><br><br>Great job! The result looks fantastic! And you made a whole doctorate investigation about tie fighters, variations and appearances! I consider myself a star wars fan and I never had an idea of how much variants existed!

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  @danielshin4526 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRVAtvA5PE0&amp;t=1079">17:59</a> yeah, life support, as most TIE variants do not come with on board life support systems, unlike their rebel counterparts

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  @georgemiller2129 · 1 year ago

  It is life support. &nbsp;Part of what makes the Tie fighters so awesome is that they are basically just an engine and guns with some solar panels so that they don&apos;t even carry fuel. &nbsp;The pilot has a life support unit they carry with them when they get into the ship.

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